Tara's Milestone @ 20 months

Wow, that's fast. I was so occupied about my car that I forgot to update my baby's milestone! Then again, I didn't pay much attention to her recently. Yikes! Bad bad.

Okay, the little girl's feeding herself pretty okay now. Still some dribbles and drips here and there but she's doing fine. I bought a new set of fork and spoon for her. The holding area of the spoon and fork are tilted towards her so it's easier for her to scoop the food and put it into her mouth.

She can hold a cup and sip carefully too. The other day, she was trying to take her cup from my dresser which was slightly taller than her, unaware the cup was already empty, she carefully move it to the edge of the dresser and slowly lower it down to peer into the cup. That's cute! Now I'm thinking of letting her drink her milk from a cup instead. But I'll do that next month.

Tara's dancing a lot nowadays. From cutesy kiddo songs to hype beat disco songs! I think my nephew influenced her to all that. Javier is the dancing boy! And Tara loves to dance to Hi-5 songs especially. At any time any day, once I hit the beat on the Hi-5 song, she will start doing the Hi-5 dance. Darn cute. At times, I just need to go "1-2-3-4, Hi ~~" and she will do the Hi-5 sign. I even tried doing a silent one. I mouthed the words and signed the numbers, and this little one will sign 5 when I'm finished with 4.

And I swear, I heard her counting to 5 the other day. She was taking blocks from the bucket and counting "to, twee, for, fai". I told Bob I heard her counting but he said it's impossible she can count. I kept trying to make her do it again but she refused to.

Words she's been babbling recently. "Hi-5", "Bird", "Fish", "Bobby" (yeah, she knows how to call Bob by name), "Daddee" (finally it's dadee, not dada), "谢谢" (though it sounds more like dei dei).

Tara loves to brush her teeth! Every night, before we go to bed, she will walk to the basin area, point to her toothbrush and said "牙牙" (baby talk for 刷牙). There was one time when she was already dazed and going into dreamland, I asked her if she wana brush her teeth, her eyes immediately opened wide and she nodded her head. After I brushed her teeth, it took her almost 1 hour to settle down and go back to sleep. I actually regret asking her, but she took quite a bit of solid food that night so I must brush her teeth.

Her mood swings is still on the extreme side. Lovey-dovey-cutesy now, and teeth-baring-wailing-screaming the next moment. Wonder what can I do to curb the teeth baring periods.